Meanwhile, the Australian coots were having a bit of a dust-up (volume up). 🐦
To my delight, this morning’s walk brought me two Kakīānau, Black swans with 4 cygnets, already swimming. 🐦
Sasha 🐶 was not a cooperative model today, either before grooming or after.
Not too bad to while away a few hours: A Welsh Murder Mystery Box Set Books 1–4 by Cathy Ace 📚:
women of the WISE Enquiries Agency turned their backs on their previous careers to work together to help others.
‘Enquiries’ rather than ‘detecting’ is an interesting notion.
The Alton Brown Shepherd’s Pie I cooked tonight was delicious. The photo doesn’t do it justice.
[Accidentally, while cooking] confirmed the smoke alarm still works. 👍
Touching. Pied Stilt. 🐦
Kāpiti Island rises from the dawn mist.
This Karoro, Black-backed gull was keeping a close eye on me this morning. 🐦
I did a heap of things today that I wanted to do. Some are unfinished, and that’s fine. The sky was blue, the sun warm, the day was still. The air is clean and I listened to birds. How fabulous to be alive! 🤩
Police urge potential new pet owners to be wary following an influx of scams involving fake puppies and cryptocurrency. … potential red flags…
[the scammers] will often use colourful text, Emojis and exhibit poor grammar.
… payment via cryptocurrency
This post by @gregmoore reminded me of this day back in 2003 when Aphra 🐈, on top of the shower, was wondering if there was a yet higher place to reach.
Aotearoa New Zealand is right in the middle of a giant high today, giving us cold clear nights and warm blue sky days. And no wind! 🤩
earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
Things fell into place today for Deb and me to eat dinner out. We visited for the first time Nanyang Flavours in Shannon, a 35 minute drive from home, where I had Nasi Goreng. It was a very large meal and extremely delicious. I have leftovers for tomorrow. 🥳
Nothing special: just a photo from when I was walking Sasha 🐶 back along the lane to home, on a perfect morning. Blue skies, warm sun, not a breath of wind, silence apart from birds.
This was such an interesting episode of Lingthusiasm: What it means for a language to be official. It’s way more complicated than I’d ever thought.
Hah! Scifi writers note:
to write a character who is… expert… Give them a deep, intense hatred of some oddly specific wow-I-did-not-even-know-that-was-a-thing-and-it-would-have-never-occurred-to-me-that-it’s-a-bad-thing thing they’ll gladly rant about.
Deb did a clean out and found an old iPhone 5. It’s so tiny! Look at it next to my iPhone 13 Pro Max.
A neighbour and I drove to Foxton today to visit the Ans Westra photo exhibition. I specially loved her photo of this young Māori girl (not named) who is clearly a warrior in the making.
